Interfaces for the Twenty-First Century Conference, August 16-18, 1999, Monterey, California

该奖项将支持于1999年8月16日至18日在加利福尼亚州蒙特雷举行的流体力学和材料处理界面数学模型会议。会议将汇集界面问题的主要研究人员，以讨论当前的艺术状态，并评估用于界面建模和解决其演变的方法的共性。参与者将包括应用数学家、工程师和来自学术界、政府实验室和工业界的科学家，他们正在研究这些问题。这次会议将为这些社区提供一个独特而及时的机会，让他们在非正式的气氛中聚集在一起，评估当前的艺术状态，并确定未来的重要研究问题。界面是发生在两个不同材料相之间的自由或移动的边界。它们广泛存在于各种不同工业过程和日常现象中的流体力学和材料处理问题中，从热锅中的水滴到固体表面上的涂层。更好地理解和成功地操作这些边界可以导致具有广泛利益的过程改进。

The award will support a conference on mathematical models for interfaces in fluid mechanics and materials processing, to be held on August 16-18, 1999 in Monterey, CA. The meeting will bring together leading researchers in interface problems in order to discuss the current state of the art and to assess the commonality of approaches used to model interfaces and solve for their evolution. The participants will include applied mathematicians, engineers, and scientists from academia, government laboratories, and industry who are working on these problems. This conference will present a unique and timely opportunity for these communities to come together in an informal atmosphere to assess the current state of the art and to identify the important research problems for the future.Interfaces are free or moving boundaries that occur between two different material phases.They are found in a wide range of fluid mechanics and materials processing problems in avariety of different industrial processes and everyday phenomena, ranging from water drops in a hot pan to coating films on a solid surface. A better understanding and the successful manipulation of such boundaries could lead to process improvements with wide benefits.